Current Location and Address

UPDATE: Reassignment (click)

Puerto Rico, San Juan - East Mission


Puerto Rico, San Juan - Mission
E-mail: Brandon.bryan@myldsmail.net


(Remember to keep things upbeat and supportive try to not to share or say things that might distract or make him feel homesick.)


He will be happy to hear from you all.

Current Location:

P.O. box 33
Adjuntas, PR 00601

Mark 1:4 and 9

4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.

9 And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.


Christ was not baptized for the remission of sins because he had none. But, as Nephi recounts, he was baptized for the following reasons:
(1) As a token of humility before the Father;
(2) As a covenant that he would keep the commandments;
(3) As a prelude to receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost;
(4) To gain entrance to and be saved in the kingdom of God, for no one, not even the Son of God, can so obtain without baptism; and
(5) As a pattern and an example for all men, and so that he could say: “Follow thou me” and also, “He that is baptized in my name, to him will the Father give the Holy Ghost, like unto me; wherefore, follow me, and do the things which ye have seen me do.” (See 2 Ne. 31:5–12.)

Bruce R. McConkie, “A Man Called John,” New Era, May 1984, 4

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Re: he talked about....?

Wed, Feb 10, 2010

Ha Ha Ha! Annie ("Sister Martinez") TOLD me that she found you! sweet! ha ha ha, we had actually been talking about stuff and then Facebook came up and she was like, "oh, do YOU have a Facebook?" and I said yes, so she found me on there, and I told her to look you up to. heh heh, I guess she wanted to send some pictures too! xD blarg! It's not MY fault I don't have all the time in the world to just toss a million pictures around! :P jeeze.

as for what she was trying to say, hmmm... in Spanish texting and stuff, they usually take the "que" down to "q", so it could either mean "that" or "what" depending on the context... AH NO! she said that I eat slow when she cooks?! DAH! It's not true! it's just that usually when she cooks, it's like right after we've eaten, or we just had lunch or something! :'( blah! besides. she's never even made us hamburgers. hmmm.... enchantment would be enjoyment, yes. encanto is either "to love", or "to enchant" depending on the context. :) um, Elder Bailey got transferred. six weeks ago. :P gosh, don't you remember that I told you that?! he got moved to Antigua. my new companion is Elder Harvey now. and... has been. for six weeks. this is our last week before transfers. with Elder HARVEY. and Yes, she Is divorced. it was... *sigh* it was an RM, and he... didn't really know what it meant to be Married. he was... a player I guess you could say. long story... :-/ chevere means cool here, but in some areas it means terrific. :D but it's pretty much used just like we use cool. so yes. it means cool. :D ha ha ha! yeah, her Brother DID give me glasses. I guess she DID take some pictures with me waering them... heh, I completely forgot that she did. HA! but I LOVE those things. in those pics I had been wearing Her Brothers, but he picked me up some after I told him that I absolutely LOVED them! he grabbed me some Brown ones, but they didn't look as cool, so hes gonna check and see if he can find the black ones so that I can enjoy them with ALL of my outfits. xD Ha Ha! yes, after we went to go eat at her house on Sunday, she gave me one of those giant KitKats and got elder HARVEY, not BAILEY anymore (:P), a Resees. those are his favorite. xD

shes totally super cool mega awesome +5. :D aw, YES! send her a picture of me with the long hair! I think that she told me that she saw some of those on dads Facebook, but she would totally love to get one! ha ha ha! I told her about it and she was like "do you have pictures?" but I didn't... so yeah, hook her up, yo! :D she also watched my little video up on YouTube. ha ha ha, beastie, that crazy cat xD yeah, I can tell her about that, no problem. :)

I do NOT have seven months! I only have five and a half. :P the CCM and MTC don't count!

Ha Ha HA! yeah, I'm glad that my letter made it to the Keys alright. :D

oh man... did I really make $5408?! BLARG! where did all of it go?! :'( man, I suck... how exactly does a tax return work, anyways? cause I was wondering about that. Tawny told me in her letter that she's getting back like a thousand bucks, so I was like, wow... I wonder if I get money back... but I don't even really know how it works... you wanna hook me up, yo? :)

yes... I must get a letter out to Darren soon. I will do that today. :)

as for my dentist appointment... heh, that's actually today. :3 I completely forgot that it was today, and not next week... so yeah, today at one thirty. it's gonna be super fun, yo! I can't wait! :D yeah, and elder HARVEY, NOT BAILEY anymore, has to get like six hundred dollars worth of work on his teeth... sweet. I'm just getting one filling, but he's got quite a bit of work to do. the water out in Antigua has a LOT of sulfer in it, and he said it just goes to town on your teeth. so Elder BAILEY out there, Not Elder HARVEY anymore, is going to have lots and lots of fun. :D so yeah... but the dentist is here in Caguas, just right down the street from Annie's house, actually xD ha ha ha!

and for Fernando, he put his OWN date for the 27th. :D we also have another guy, Lester, who is the son of a recent convert who put his own date as well for the 20th. so I've got two baptisms comin up, yo! :D and we also had a person who has come to church with a friend this last week who is pretty interested. we've got an appointment with her this Thursday and it's pretty likely that we're going to have a date placed with her the next week after the 27th... so yeah. life's pretty good out here I guess. xD

ok ok... so no tie hunting this last week... so whats new beginnings? and do you think you can go and do some tie hunting THIS week? :3 cause that would be pretty sweet you know. just throwing that out there. :3

BLARG! I KNEW your birthday was coming up! DAH! I never remember when it IS though! ... when is it? :) also... when exactly is Ehren's birthday as well? I gots to know that too. :)
hmm... heyitsfree.net sounds like a quite fantastic website... you gotta remind me about that when I get home. I've got some birthdays to catch up on. ;)

ha ha ha, I like that Annies been sending you emails. I think its sweet! it kinda makes it like... I dunno, like there,s a more connectino, I guess? I dunno. but I'm glad you guys are talking. :D

yes yes. don't you forget that next week is transfers! I SHOULD be able to have the opportunity to write no problem next week, so we'll see how the cookie crumbles. :D

so, a few other things to throw in here:

-is donny still using my backpack!? He better not be!

-also, Ive got big news! in June, something big is happening. it's bigger and better than ever! its: the combining of the Puerto Rico San Juan east and west missions! *ScReAmS* NOOO! but yes. it's true. and there is no escape.

-something else. myldsmail.net has now combinded itself with Gmail. so now, myldsmail is much better, much more awesome, and I'm lacking all of my email contacts! :D yay! so now, you gotta hook me up with all my emails that I sent you so that you could send THEM emails. well, send 'em already! also, I'm not exactly sure why, but they changed my email. it was kinda like this automatic "we're going to give you a new email thing"... BUT, all the OLD emails I have, and all emails that are sent to brandonhbryan@myldsmail.net will be automatically sent to me at brandon.bryan@myldsmail.net so yeah... thats my new email./ use it, love it, keep it in your hearts. thank you.

-also, have you fixed the BlendTech yet? cause I know for a fact that when I get back from the mission I'm gonna want a berry smoothie! cause then I'll have TIME TO BE ABLE TO MAKE ONE! sweet. free time. mmmmmm, free time. and practice my guitar time.... mmmmmm. that will be nice.

but yeah... not much has really happened this week so far... hmmm... not really much at all, really. we've been doing lots of finding because we have time to... yup. thats about it. so yeah. not much else. :D

and now its time to go. welp, I love everybody! have a good February tenth to the sixteenth! WEEE!!!!

~Brandon (Elder Bryan)

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